Executive Summary:
- States & Canadian provinces we rode through:
- California
- Washington
- Oregon
- Alaska
- British Columbia
- Yukon Territory
- Scott & Trev (Seattle):
- 3,941 riding miles in 11 days
- 916 nautical miles in 4 days on
Alaskan ferry
- 4,857 total miles traveled
- Paul & Jeff (Tucson):
- 6,141 riding miles in 15 days
- 916 nautical miles in 4 days on
Alaskan ferry
- 7,057 total miles traveled
- Eric (Los Angeles):
- 2,681 miles in 4 days
- Earns the
Iron Butt Association's
"Saddle Sore" certificate for riding from Seattle to LA in
24 hrs. or less
- Objectives:
-
Planning the ride
- Day 1 � Heading to the Redwoods
- Wednesday, June 22
- Paul, Jeff & Eric
- Los Angeles, CA to Crescent
City,
CA
- 763 miles
- Day 2 -
The Oregon Coast
- Thursday, June 23
- Crescent City, CA to Seattle, WA
- 531 miles
- Day 3 -
Heading for the Alaska ferry
-
Friday,
June 24
-
Seattle, WA to
ferry terminal in Bellingham, WA
-
98 miles
(Paul, Scott, Jeff & Trev)
-
208 miles
(Eric - Burien to Bellingham & back)
- Day
3 - 6:
The Love Boat
- Friday, June 24 to Monday, June
27
- Bellingham, WA to Haines, AK
- 916 miles
- Eric earns his
IBA Saddle Sore on
Saturday, June 25!
- Day 6 -
Boat fever!
- Day 7
- Dual sporting on the Alaska Highway
- Tuesday, June 28
- Kluane National Park Reserve, YT
to Glennallen, AK
- 376 miles
- Day 8
- Riders on the storm
- Wednesday, June 29
- Glenallen, AK to Seward, AK
- 305 miles
- Day 9 - Denali National Park
- Thursday, June 30
- Seward, AK to Denali National Park,
AK
- 361 miles
- Day 10 - Denali National Park
- Friday, July 1
- A day off to explore
- Day 11 - The North Pole
- Saturday, July 2
- Denali National Park to
Destruction Bay, Yukon Territory
- 551 miles
- Day 12 - Cruising the Alcan
- Sunday, July 3
- Destruction Bay, YT to Watson
Lake, YT
- 436 miles
- Day 13 -
Braving the wilds of British Columbia
- Monday, July 4
- Watson Lake, YT to Pink Mountain,
BC
- 468 miles
- Day 14
- Mile Zero
- Tuesday, July 5
- Pink Mountain, BC to Williams
Lake, BC
- 540 miles
- Day 15 - Smelling the barn!
- Wednesday, July 6
- Williams Lake, BC to Seattle, WA
- 429 miles
- Days 16 & 17 - Superslab
& Post Trip Ruminations
- Thursday & Friday, July 7 & 8
- Paul & Jeff
- Seattle, WA to Los Angeles, CA
- 1,116 miles
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Riders & Bikes:
Memorable Quotes:
- Overhead on the Alaska ferry as
the Inside Passage water turned milky due to glacier melt: "Look
at all the sedative in the water!". Her companion, without
skipping a beat or cracking a smile, replies, "Yeah, if you fall in and swallow some
you get really sleepy and drown."
- As we were assessing the beer
supplies on board the ferry: "There are only two kinds of beer in
this world, Budweiser and root beer." -- Jeff Adams
- "I ain't no clown!" -- Wally
- "Don't Juneau?" -- Anonymous
- "Dude! So where's the Ketchikan
Thunderf#ck?" -- "Patch", a ferry passenger from
New Jersey on the streets of Ketchikan
- "Oh dear!" - Scott
- "I have never been lost but I will
admit to having been confused for several weeks at a time." --
Daniel Boone (Quote seen in the Visitors Center at Denali National Park)
- "I'm feeling a little gassy
today." -- Pablo, after the umpteenth fart that morning
- "If we listen to the land, we will know what
to do." --
Terry Tempest Williams, naturalist & writer (Quote seen in the
Visitors Center at Denali National Park)
- "I moved here for the Kokanee." --
Anonymous
- Overhead in the cocktail lounge
aboard the Alaska ferry: "Julane, can I have another pitcher of
beer?" "Ah, I think you need to go eat something first."
- "We come down here to smoke, drink
and watch NASCAR." -- George, resident of Aklavik, NW
Territory, Canada
- "You'll never see a skinny
Eskimo." -- George, husband of an American Inuit
- Overhead in the motel parking lot
in Destruction Bay: "But I'm the Pork Chop! Check this out!"
says Jeff as he rolls up his sleeve to display his "Pork Chop"
tattoo.
- "Why do Eskimos not like aspirin?
Because they are white and they work." -- May, an American Inuit
- "What was I talking about?" --
Scott
- "Whatever we have done with our
lives makes us what we are when we die, and everything,
absolutely everything, counts. -- Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan
Book of Living & Dying
- "Dude! You've got a serious
traffic problem around here!" -- Paul after experiencing Seattle's
rush hour traffic first hand
- "You bought another tent?" --
Everyone upon hearing of Scott's latest purchase
- "This is cool. You come to Alaska
and travel from storm to storm." -- Jeff
- "Oh! Scott made a funny!" -- Paul
- "There is much to offer those who understand the language
of the great silent places. Here will be found an indescribable
calm. A place just to loaf, healing to the sick mind and body,
beyond the reach of present day mental and nervous and moral
strain." -- Harry Karstens, first superintendent of the Denali
National Park (Quote seen in the Denali Visitors Center)
- Advice received while replacing a
fuse on the ST1300: "And while you are at it, take out that fuse
for the ABS. You don't need that crap." -- Pablo
- "So discipline is to do what is
appropriate or just; that is, in an excessively complicated age,
to simplify our lives." -- Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan
Book of Living & Dying
- "Why is your upper lip quivering?
Are you not being completely honest with me?" -- Female Canadian border
crossing guard grilling Pork Chop
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